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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 02/03/2025

Introducing a potential new Edtech product-inspired by historical innovation! In 1925, the Isolator helmet emerged as a tool to enhance work productivity by eliminating distractions. The Isolator - a blend of heritage & modern productivity solutions. 😜 #Edtech #edusky

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 12/02/2025

At #ICSEI2025 discussions abound on the impact of AI on education. Artist Refik Anadol describes AI as a mirror reflecting humanity's essence. www.mckinsey.com/capabilities... #AI #digitalart #refikanadol #refikstudio #digitaltechnologies #technology #educationreform

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

A6. Check out scienceandtechnologyAustralia.org.au and their superstars of STEM. Some of the unis also provide programs for young scientists to get exposure & prep for conference speaking. Tap into these networks as the benefit goes both ways! #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

LOL I'm actually still no good at maths Asha but my inability to make sense of Maths has never stopped me. I've focussed on what I can do well and Maths is not the only determinant of academic success. #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

A4. Engage them in primary, by secondary it's too late as that is when it's not seen as cool and the influence of the boys becomes more powerful #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

Never heard of a diamond school before Anna. What state was that? There are a number of different approaches. I just know that compared to the national 6% take up of STEM & advanced maths subjects, at the girls school I was at we had 60%+ take up year on year. #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

Absolutely. I was hoping I might catch you this trip but the agenda each day is just too good and my FOMO would kill me if I missed any of it!

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

A3. They also need support from within their chosen fields. Young grads need to know where they can find and build supportive networks. This is probably more a job for tertiary educators than K-12. #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

A3. You can't be what you can't see so to inspire girls we need to work harder to bring scientists into our classrooms, not just scientists but engineers and IT professionals too! #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

A2. I think my response might be contentious but having worked in girls Ed for 11 years and now in a coed environment I'd at least be separating them into streams where they could focus on areas of interest to women and girls #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

Michelle Gallagher back in the Twitter days was an inspiring scientist, from Melbourne, who was networking and supporting young female scientists to publish and build profiles. #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

Just back after taking Syd colleagues to a Melb rooftop bar- my obligation as a Melburnite. I did say, "Adriano will understand if I'm late!"

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 11/02/2025

Mary-Lou from Sydney dialling in from Melbourne, after a long but briiliant day at the #icsei2025 conference #EduSkyAU

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Our young people deserve more than a system of broken dreams. Standardised tests don’t prepare them for today’s world. Let’s reimagine education and build schools that shape whole beings, not just test scores: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... #EduSkyAU

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 06/02/2025

You're invited to join Redlands Voice Notes! Featuring Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner, on gender equity & digital safety. Launching on #InternationalWomensDay. Secure your spot: events.humanitix.com/voice-notes-... #IWD2025 #IWD25 #MarchForward #IWD #VoiceNotes #IWDevents #EduSkyAU

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IWD March Forward Breakfast

#IWD24 Breakfast Panel @ Redlands

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 18/01/2025

And Peter Grays follow up letter responding to all the comments he received...https://open.substack.com/pub/petergray/p/63-more-on-moral-panics-and-thoughts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2cp2ag

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 18/01/2025

A brief history of Moral Panic concerning kids and their chosen media by Boston College Professor Peter Gray (research professor of psychology and neuroscience) #moralpanic #parenting #education #socialmedia open.substack.com/pub/petergra...

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#62. A Brief History of Moral Panics Concerning Kids and Their Chosen Media

The current call to bar kids from online social media is the most recent in a long series of panics about kids and media

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Sameer Hinduja @hinduja.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

New piece out! "How Platforms Should Build AI Chatbots to Prioritize Youth Safety" - In the light of the Character.AI lawsuits, I discuss seven practical implementations for companies building AI-driven social chatbots for youth. What am I missing? Let's discuss! cyberbullying.org/ai-chatbots-...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

CONNECTING AUSTRALIAN 🇦🇺 EDUCATORS! We can’t wait to share with you the inaugural host of first #EduSkyAU chat on @bsky.app. Follow the team @eduskyauteam.bsky.social for the latest news. Let’s Go!!

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

COMING SOON! The brainchild of Australian 🇦🇺 teacher @brookssensei.bsky.social with a team of fellow Aussie educators, #EduSkyAU Chat drops in late January 2025. Join the conversation 😃.

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 10/01/2025

The 2025 WEF Future of Jobs Report was released this week and it highlights significant shifts in the global labour market, with key implications for the education sector... #education #careers #futureofwork #edreform #EduSky #school #futureofjobs www.linkedin.com/posts/marylo...

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Mary-Lou O'Brien on LinkedIn: The Future of Jobs Report 2025

The Future of Jobs Report 2025

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"If your child is born this year, they are likely going to live through +1.5°C of warming by the time they are 25. A fact that is likely going to cause a 40% to 50% drop in the global food supply and a reduction of 2.5 to 4 billion in the global population by 2050, at a minimum." #wow

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The Crisis Report - 99

We are now “officially” in uncharted territory.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What percentage of students are you willing to falsely accuse of cheating with AI? There is a trade-off between false accusations and detection rates for AI. At a 10% false positive rate, detectors find 80% or less of AI content. At a 1% rate most find 60% or less. Don’t trust AI detectors!

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"Finland aims to achieve the best financial literacy in the world by 2030, and projects such as Yrityskylä are a big part of the push...She added that 'learning by doing' or through gamification was vital in addition to more theoretical lessons." See: all the photos of kids *doing things*.

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Leon Furze @leonfurze.com · 13/12/2024

Version 2 of the AI Assessment Scale is now available as a new preprint! We explain all of the choices behind our updates, as well as detailing the theoretical grounding for the AIAS #artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu arxiv.org/pdf/2412.09029

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Science-wow @dr-jennifer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

HundrED’s 2025 Global Collection highlights key education trends: sustainability & wellbeing, creative thinking, collaborative learning, and digital tools. These innovations inspire a shift toward inclusive, learner-centered approaches: hundred.org/en/reports/h... #Innovation #EduSky

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 10/12/2024

I've just read a thought-provoking article about meritocracy & its impact on #education. It highlights the innovative work being done in #Australia. It's refreshing to see education evolving to embrace a more holistic view of student capabilities. #EducationInnovation inside.org.au/the-fall-of-...

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The fall of the meritocracy? • Dean Ashenden

A taken-for-granted is being questioned at last, with implications in education and elsewhere

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 05/12/2024

...and then there's me! #AI for the win!

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 05/12/2024

Competition heating up at Redlands for the new best dressed office for Christmas. So many talented and creative people...

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 03/12/2024

Clicked your Bendigo # Fiona and found @deanarcuri.bsky.social! I miss JoyFM's Mad Wednesdays!

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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Well, this could hardly be more timely (and is very carefully written): Ten Myths About the Effect of Social Media Use on Well-Being by Jeffrey A Hall doi.org/10.2196/59585

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This viewpoint reviews the empirical evidence regarding the association between social media use and well-being, including life satisfaction and affective well-being, and the association between social media use and ill-being, including loneliness, anxiety, and depressive symptomology. To frame this discussion, this viewpoint will present 10 widely believed myths about social media, each drawn from popular discourse on the topic. In rebuttal, this viewpoint will offer a warranted claim supported by the research. The goal is to bring popular beliefs into dialogue with state-of-the-art quantitative social scientific evidence. It is the intention of this viewpoint to provide a more accurate and nuanced claim to

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 29/11/2024

I'm so lucky to have such amazing leaders in the team who know how to build community, and not just support it!

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 29/11/2024

Brilliant aren't they? What a team. I'd meant to post it on LinkedIn this arvo and completely forgot so thanks for the reminder!

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Sabine Partington @sabinepartington.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We literally have the best Service Desk team ever. So much more than digital support, they offer digital nutrition for the soul. Follow their Spotify list “Service Desk News” open.spotify.com/playlist/71M...

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 27/11/2024

Sydney University will allow students to use artificial intelligence in a radical reversal of its cheating policy, conceding bans on technology such as ChatGPT are untenable. #ai #artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu #aiined #aiinedu www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Sydney Uni students allowed to use AI in radical reversal of cheating policy

The plan, to be phased in next year, will mean students won’t be banned from using AI on homework or assignments.

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Dr Jane Secker @jsecker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Is AI literacy an information skill? Who should be teaching these skills and how can librarians work with other professionals to embed critical thinking in the curriculum www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/ai-li...

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Is AI literacy an information skill?

To capitalise on GenAI’s strengths, and understand its limitations, students need to develop their research and critical thinking skills in practical, embedded and subject-specific ways

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Zoe Daniel @zoedaniel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today I introduced this in Parliament. It’s time the Big Tech giants were made to manage their algorithms to make our online experience safe, time we stopped asking users and parents to be the solution to social media harm. The operators of these platforms should step up. My Bill would achieve that.

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Antonio Grasso @antgrasso.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the global economy and transforming the workforce and infrastructure. An IMF 2023 map highlights the ten most AI-ready countries, with Singapore at the top. Source @visualcap.bsky.social #AI

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Mary-Lou O'Brien @mlobrien.com · 25/11/2024

Should have looked there before YouTube! 🤦🏻‍♀️ dayofaiaustralia.com/additional-r... The #csiro video is excellent youtu.be/5mHxO2JpCR0?...

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